Re: corruption of /usr with cfdisk

["Adam C. Siepel" <acs ncgr org>]

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Denice wrote:

> have you tried toggling the 'm' option back?  The man page suggests that
> you can toggle the setting between maximize and compatible:
> 
>  "This option will toggle between maximal  disk  usage and DOS, OS/2, etc.
>   compatible disk usage."
> 
> You probably have nothing to lose -- re-invoke cfdisk, and try toggling 
> the partition setting back again...


Good idea.  I hadn't noticed that.  

One problem is that I can't run cfdisk, because I don't have the ncurses
library available in my emergency configuration.  If necessary, I can find
a way to install it, but it could be quite a pain, in my system's
semi-paralyzed state.  The man page doesn't say anything about a non-curses
mode, does it?  (i.e., a mode like fdisk).  I don't have man pages
available either, or I'd look it up myself!